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Old September 13th 07, 01:07 PM posted to uk.transport.london
John B John B is offline
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Default Mysteries seen from the air

On 13 Sep, 11:51, "John Rowland"
wrote:
What surprises me is that there is a factory anywhere in London let
alone Croydon or the whole of SE England come to that.
I thought that London as a 100% service industry sector. I suppose it
could be a warehouse for all those Far East imports.


There are numerous food factories in Park Royal.
Kodak has a huge factory in Wealdstone.


And I'm currently working with a company that has a large food factory
within Greater London.

Less anecdotally, according to the EEF trade organisation[*], 15,000
manufacturing companies employ 260,000 people within Greater London,
generating £15bn of value-add.
[*] http://www.eef.org.uk/south/whatwedo...ufacturing.htm

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